Installing Simplescalar

2008-10-18T15:09:00.014-04:00

Note: If you have 64-bit processor install VMware on your OS and then install Linux on that virtual machine. SimpleScalar gcc (gcc 2.6.3) gives segmentation fault on 64-bit architecture.

VMware player: http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ .

Ubuntu for VMware :http://www.vmware.com/appliances/directory/63860

Here is the procedure I used ..

1) on Ubuntu (or whichever Linux you use) first do--

sudo apt-get update

2) Getting required applications

sudo apt-get install flex-old bison gedit

3) Start extraction

mkdir /tmp/simplescalar

cd /tmp/simplescalar/

wget http://csrl.unt.edu/downloads/simplescalar.tgz

tar xvfz simplescalar.tgz

  4) Install gcc 3.3 (Required)

sudo apt-get install g++-3.3 gcc-3.3

export CC="gcc-3.3";

 5) setting up installation

export HOST=i686-unknown-linux

export TARGET=sslittle-na-sstrix export

IDIR=/opt/simplescalar

 6) Simplescalar tools

cd /tmp/simplescalar tar xvfz simpletools-2v0.tgz

rm -rf gcc-2.6.3

 sudo mkdir -p /opt/simplescalar

sudo mv f2c-1994.09.27/ glibc-1.09/ ssbig-na-sstrix/ sslittle-na-sstrix/ /opt/simplescalar/

7) Simplescalar utils

cd /tmp/simplescalar

tar xvfz simpleutils-990811.tar.gz

cd /tmp/simplescalar/simpleutils-990811

./configure --host=$HOST --target=$TARGET --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --prefix=$IDIR

make CC=gcc-3.3

sudo make install CC=gcc-3.3

8) Simplescalar!!

cd /tmp/simplescalar

tar xvfz simplesim-3v0d.tgz

cd simplesim-3.0

make config-pisa

make CC=gcc-3.3

>>You will get "My work is done here" :)

cd /tmp/simplescalar sudo mv simplesim-3.0 /opt/simplescalar

  9) Now the hard part

cd /tmp/simplescalar/ tar xvfz gcc-2.7.2.3.ss.tar.gz

 cd /tmp/simplescalar/gcc-2.7.2.3

export PATH=$PATH:$IDIR/sslittle-na-sstrix/bin

./configure --host=$HOST --target=$TARGET --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --prefix=$IDIR

make LANGUAGES="c c++" CFLAGS=-O3 CC=gcc-3.3

>>>>Error! Many errors about \ missing in insn-output.o

gedit insn-output.c

>>>> Edit file insn-output.c and add a \ (backslash) at the end of lines 675, 750, and 823.

make LANGUAGES="c c++" CFLAGS=-O3 CC=gcc-3.3

 >> Error! about libgcc2.a

gedit Makefile

 >>Edit file Makefile and add -I/usr/include to the end of line 130.

make LANGUAGES="c c++" CFLAGS=-O3 CC=gcc-3.3

sudo cp patched/sys/cdefs.h /opt/simplescalar/sslittle-na-sstrix/include/sys/

make enquire CC=gcc-3.3

/opt/simplescalar/simplesim-3.0/sim-safe ./enquire -f > float.h-cross

sudo make install LANGUAGES="c c++" CFLAGS=-O3 CC=gcc-3.3 PATH=$PATH:/opt/simplescalar/bin

>>>>Update from Tim
>>>>I ran into an additional issue during step nine with cxxmain.c. 
>>>>For some reason the code redefines malloc.
>>>>To fix, just comment out lines 2978‐2979 and the compilation should continue.
>>>>Thanks Tim

 10) Testing the installation!!!

cd /tmp/simplescalar /opt/simplescalar/bin/sslittle-na-sstrix-gcc hello.c

 /opt/simplescalar/simplesim-3.0/sim-safe a.out

Happy simulating!!

I have referred to : -

http://csrl.unt.edu/pipermail/research/2007-August/000068.html

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~bhagiweb/cs211/SimpleScalar/simplescalar-ubuntu-install.txt

http://www.simplescalar.com/docs/install_guide_v2.txt

And a lot more..

Harry's Code

Installing Simplescalar